How do we know when spending growth in hospitals is a sign of progress or profiteering? The team at the Yale Health Care Affordability Lab may have found a way to distinguish good mergers from bad ones, and it could help Virginians trying to make health care more affordable.
Brian Chiglinsky
Brian Chiglinsky, a native of Salem, is a health care communications consultant and was the former director of speechwriting at the United States Department of Health and Human Services in the Obama Administration. He has experience in health care startups, as well as local, state and federal government, and can be reached at brian.chiglinsky@gmail.com.
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Health care consultant: Spanberger’s Health Financing Task Force should seek advice from technology community
The task force should also reach out to Virginia’s tech community — proposing contests, hackathons and other ways to find new tools and consumer-friendly ways to cut through bureaucratic red tape and make the process of verifying income and eligibility as easy as possible.
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In some counties in Southwest and Southside, nearly 40% of kids depend on Medicaid
Every community in Southwest and Southside needs to prepare for changes to Head Start and Medicaid.
